Decibel Magazine

Make this your most-extreme Christmas ever.

Roadburn 2019 commission the return of ex-The Devil’s Blood frontwoman Farida Lemouchi in a special new project.

Armored Saint and Metal Monkey are ready for the brew order.

Sabbath, ’60s girl groups, T.S. Eliot, Escape from New York, and Road Warrior drive this month’s collection. Wait, what?

A seasonally appropriate list of titles to summon moonspell rites and rekindle the pagan spirit!

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Arsis main man James Malone leads us to the dark side… hair metal.

How could Slayer improve their setlist on their final tour?

Not to be disagreeing with a living legend here or anything….

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles just got a lot more extreme.

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Pursue grindlightenment (or gym success, if that’s more your thing) with this month’s Decibel Meter, courtesy of f.y.e.

In memory of the grindcore legend, Decibel picks the best songs written by Jesse Pintado.

The Ace of Spades could mean free issues of Decibel for the rest of your life!

Decibel is proud to welcome Unibroue as the presenting brewery at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles.

Backwoods Payback are Pennsylvania’s best-kept secret and our Best New Noise.

Immortal call forth the freezing wintermoon and bring a chill to summ–er, rather, record collections.

Watch PHL 17‘s coverage of Decibel Metal & Beer Fest.

Memoriam main man Karl Willets talks politics, grief and The Silent Vigil.

There are five separate ticketed events related to Decibel Metal & Beer Fest. Here’s our official guide to what goes down when.

If you want one of these limited edition (3,000 copies) of Choosing Death, it’s now or never, people.

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In celebration of the start of the seventh incarnation of the Decibel Magazine Tour, Enslaved creative force Ivar Bjørnson ranks the band’s albums from worst to best.

Last April we announced our partnership with f.y.e. for the Decibel Meter, a monthly collection featured both online and in store to make sure you don’t miss any of the essential titles from each month. And while we know you’re preparing to spend all that money in the “savings” account on five-dollar flatscreens and pennies-on-the-dollar…

Just in time for the Halloween season, we’ve got a list of terrors spawned by the new full-length from Myrkur, which translates to “nightmare”

In which we consider the top 10 songs about a quintessential heavy metal topic: chains.

Doom Side of the Moon is a doomed-out interpretation of Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side of the Moon. Read an interview with bandleader Kyle Shutt (The Sword) to find out what makes Doom Side tick.

Wolves in the Throne Room is a band rooted in extremity yet bring something fresh to the genre; this month’s Decibel Meter follows suite.